Re: Consecutive melismata - error in NR?

[Colin Hall]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 02:26:07PM +0200, Philip Thomas wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> The following appears in NR v.2.14.2, section 2.1.1, Common notation for
> vocal music, Multiple notes to one syllable (see page 233 of PDF version):
> 
> Note that this method cannot be used to indicate two melismata if the first
> one is immediately followed by another.
> 
> ========================
> 
> My question concerns the last sentence (?Note that ...?). I think the method
> _can_ be used to indicate two consecutive melismata, e.g. the following
> seems to work just fine, to me:
> 
> \relative c''
> <<
>   \new Voice = "melody" {
>     \time 3/4
>     f4 g8
>     \melisma
>     f e f
>     \melismaEnd
>     g8
>     \melisma
>     f e f
>     \melismaEnd
>     e2.
>   }
>   \new Lyrics \lyricsto "melody" {
>     E -- le -- i -- son
>   }
> >>

Thanks for the report, Philip. I tried your example and I agree that
the documentation seems misleading.

I wonder if it was intended to warn the user against this situation,
which typesets fine but gives a warning:

\relative c''
<<
  \new Voice = "melody" {
    \time 3/4
    f4 g8
    \melisma
    f e f
    \melismaEnd
    \melisma
    f e f
    \melismaEnd
    e2.
  }
  \new Lyrics \lyricsto "melody" {
    E -- le -- i -- son
  }
>>

Those lines were added to the documentation in by Trevor Daniels back in 2010.

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=lilypond.git;a=commitdiff;h=de43d3813a266bccbb33b1223fa61c4187a71d8d

Trevor, any recollections? A long time ago, I know.

> Unless I'm missing the point, then the sentence should
> simply be deleted.

I've created a tracker:
http://code.google.com/p/lilypond/issues/detail?id=2597

Cheers,
Colin.

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Colin Hall